Great English Essays From Bacon to Chesterton

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This collection, spanning four centuries of English wit, wisdom, and common sense, contains the thoughts of a number of renowned masters of the essay. From Francis Bacon-the English author who reputedly imported the genre from France, to literary critic, mystery writer, and social commentator G. K. Chesterton, more than twenty writers express their views on such subjects as walking, writing, traveling, sleeping, pets, friends, and childhood.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Of Love [Essays, 1612]

(2)

Of Cunning [Essays, 1612]

(3)

Of Ambition [Essays, 1612]

(2)

Of Gardens [Essays, 1612]

(5)

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

The Good Schoolmaster [The Holy and Profane State, 1642] [CEE]

(3)

Owen Feltham (ca. 1608-1668)

Of Dreams [Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political, 1661] [EP]

(2)

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

Of Myself [Discourses by Way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, 1668]

(5)

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

A Meditation Upon a Broomstick, According to the Style and Manner of the Hon. Robert Boyle's Meditations [1704] [CEE]

(2)

A Modest Proposal [1729] [The Works of Jonathan Swift, 1851]

(7)

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden [The Spectator, No. 383, May 20, 1712]

(3)

The Tory Fox-Hunter [The Freeholder, No. 22, March 5, 1716] [SEE]

(4)

Meditations in Westminster Abbey [The Spectator, No. 26, March 30, 1711]

(3)

Richard Steele (1672-1729)

Jack Lizard [The Guardian, No. 24, April 8, 1713] [GEE]

(4)

Recollections of Childhood [The Tatler, No. 181, June 6, 1710]

(3)

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Dick Minim the Critic [Parts 1-2] [The Idler, Nos. 60-61, June 9 and June 16, 1759] [EP]

(6)

Spring [The Rambler, No. 5, April 3, 1750]

(4)

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)

Art Connoisseurs [The Idler, No. 76, 1759] [EPMR]

(3)

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Character of an Important Trifler, Beau Tibbs [The Public Ledger, July 2, 1760]

(3)

The Character of the Trifler Continued: with That of His Wife, His House, and Furniture [The Public Ledger, August 1, 1760]

(3)

National Prejudice [The Citizen of the World, 1762] [EPMR]

(3)

James Boswell (1740-1795)

Passionate Love [The Hypochondriack, No. 11, London Magazine, August 1778]

(5)

Parents and Their Children [The Hypochondriack, No. 45, London Magazine, June 1781]

(4)

Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist [London Magazine, 1821; Essays of Elia, 1823] [SEE]

(6)

A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People [The Reflector, ca. 1811-1812; Essays of Elia, 1823] [SEE]

(6)

The Superannuated Man [The Last Essays of Elia, 1833]

(6)

Old China [London Magazine, 1823; The Last Essays of Elia, 1833] [CEE]

(5)

William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

On Familiar Style [Table-Talk, or Original Essays, 1822]

103

(6)

On Going a Journey [January 1822; Table-Talk, or Original Essays, 1822]

109

(9)

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)

A Few Thoughts on Sleep [The Indicator, 1834]

118

(5)

Getting Up on Cold Mornings [The Indicator, 1834]

123

(3)

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

Tunbridge Toys [The Roundabout Papers, 1863]

126

(5)

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Lying Awake [Household Words, October 30, 1852]

131

(6)

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)

A Walk in a Wood [Good Words, September 1879]

137

(10)

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

The Clouds Are There [Modern Painters, IV 1856-1860]

147

(3)

John Addington Symonds (1840-1893)

Personal Style [Essays Speculative and Suggestive, 1890]

150

(5)

W.H. Hudson (1841-1922)

Her Own Village [A Traveller in Little Things, 1921]

155

(4)

Dandy: A Story of a Dog [A Traveller in Little Things, 1921]

159

(4)

Alice Meynell (1847-1922)

Fellow Travellers with a Bird [Essays, 1916]

163

(5)

The Unready [Essays, 1916]

168

(3)

Richard Jefferies (1848-1887)

The July Grass [Field and Hedgerow, 1888]

171

(3)

Augustine Birrell (1850-1933)

Book-Buying [Obiter Dicta, 1894]

174

(3)

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Notes on the Movements of Young Children [1874] [Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson]

177

(4)

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

On Pleasure Bent [November 20, 1897] [Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology by Bernard Shaw]

181

(5)

G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

A Defence of Skeletons [The Defendant, 1901]

186

(3)

A Defence of Nonsense [The Defendant, 1901]

189

(4)

Twelve Men [Tremendous Trifles, 1909]

193

(3)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Hours in a Library [TLS, November 30, 1916]

196

(6)

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

Adolf [The Dial, September 1920]

202

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